grill

grill 1

• verb

1 [I,T] if you grill food, or if food grills, you cook it by putting it close to a strong heat; BROIL AmE
2 [T] informal to ask someone a lot of difficult questions over a long period of time:
?They let the man go after grilling him for several hours.

grill 2

• noun [C]

1 BrE a part of a COOKER which cooks food on a metal shelf, using strong heat

2 a metal frame on which food can be cooked over a fire
3 also grille a frame of metal bars which protects people or things, for example around machinery or windows